How can two-thirds of NC Republicans support a man unfit for office? | Opinion
A recent poll indicates 66% of North Carolina Republicans will vote for Donald Trump. Two-thirds. Twelve percent support Nikki Haley, nine are for Ron DeSantis.
Trump’s lawyer said last week if he ordered SEAL Team 6 to murder his political opponents, he’d be absolutely immune from prosecution unless first impeached. Trump himself agreed the next day, saying, “presidents have to have immunity, it’s simple.” I assume, then, that if Joe Biden commanded the same team to kill a political opponent tonight, he’d also go free.
Trump also said recently that Lincoln was to blame for the Civil War — he should have brokered a slavery deal. He then played the false “birther” card against Nikki Haley like he had against President Obama and shared a video entitled “God Made Trump.”
Trump has said he’ll pardon Jan. 6 insurrectionists — calling them “hostages.” He claimed, echoing Hitler, immigrants “poison the blood of the nation.” He brutally separated mothers from their babies at the border and now wants to build huge prison camps for the undocumented.
Trump says he’d repeal the 14th Amendment; he claims he can suspend the entire constitution; and indicates he’ll become “dictator for a day.” He’s threatened to close NBC and other networks he dislikes. His defense secretary, Mark Esper, said he broke with Trump because he wanted to use the military to shoot Black Lives Matter protesters on American streets.
Trump told vice-president Mike Pence to overthrow the 2020 presidential election and, when he refused, said he agreed with the rioters that he should be hung. He told the Georgia Secretary of State to “gimme a break, I just need you to get me 11,780 votes” and then made threats of prosecution when he refused. He told his followers if he wins he’ll be “their vengeance,” their retribution. He published Barack Obama’s address to endanger his family. He said if a court rules against him, “bedlam” will break out in the country.
Trump suggested Gen. Mark Milley should be executed. He didn’t want to visit the graves of fallen soldiers in Normandy because it might muss his hair. Standing among the graves of fallen soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day 2017, Trump told his then chief of staff, John Kelly, as Gold Star father: “I don’t get it. What was in it for them?” He also said he didn’t want disabled veterans at events because ”it doesn’t look good for me.”
Trump said John McCain was a loser and made fun of him for being unable to lift his arms after being beaten and tortured as a prisoner of war. As a prisoner, McCain had refused an offer of an early release because it was against “honor. He asked: What kind of life would I have without honor? Meghan McCain tweeted in response: “(Donald) Trump is a piece of sh-t, election denying, huckster whose own wife won’t campaign with him.”
A court ruled Trump sexually assaulted E. Jean Carroll. He bragged, on tape, that he likes to grab women “by the p----.” He proposed a ban on Muslims coming to the U.S. And, of course, he tried to enlist the Congress, the vice president, attorney general, Department of Justice, Department of Homeland Security, U.S. military, scores of American courts, various state legislatures, numerous slates of recruited fake electors, and, finally, thousands of violent thugs to overthrow the lawful government of the United States.
This is the candidate 66% of N.C. Republicans support. The candidate Mark Robinson, Phil Berger Tim Moore, Ted Budd, Thom Tillis, Virginia Foxx, Dan Bishop, Greg Murphy, Richard Hudson and David Rouzer will seek to elect in November.
Chris Christie has explained that anyone who won’t publicly say Trump is unfit for office is himself unfit for office. Amen. I assume almost everyone believed North Carolina was better than this.